Comment on American bully XL dogs to be banned by end of year - Sunak

• reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  At least partly because scumbags who want to abuse a dog until it’s violent and dangerous don’t buy shih tzus to start with. If you ban a breed because it’s “dangerous” you’ll see people defy it, evade it through hybridizing (which already happened, the bully xl is a hybrid of the already-banned bull terrier) or just start abusing and selectively breeding a different large breed until it’s as violent as this breed. I’m not even necessarily against sunsetting this breed, it feels like we’re in a situation where a lot of bad decisions we’ve made in the past have made this a good decision. But I think that there are a lot of core problems that won’t be solved just by playing whack a mole with the current breed making headlines

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• TigrisMorte@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Same reason Dobermans and Pit Bulls are the most abused Dogs in the US.

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• PoopingCough@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Because when they do attack they are capable of doing serious damage; enough to be reported. No one is gonna report a dachshund attack for example so statistically it looks like dachshunds never attack people.

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  • Harmonics0417@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    So when they attack they do more damage than other dogs but that doesn’t male them more dangerous? I’m lost

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  • lemonflavoured@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Which means they are more dangerous.

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